within the Columbia Graphophone company released unattributable stories to suggest that Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony, which Donald Tovey as British delegate certainly considered a masterpiece, was also evaluated, as well as a set of symphonic variations entitled Karma by the American Charles Haubiel. This account would square with a report in The New York Times (29 November 1928) which suggested that the jury were divided on four scores which were considered outstanding but eventually rejected as 'in a modernistic vein inappropriate to the occasion', and that Atterberg's Symphony was awarded the prize as the best of the others, with (it seems) five jurors dissenting and the deadlock broken by the casting vote of Glazunov. Yet Atterberg's Symphony No. 6 is by no means the mere pastiche that it was represented as in contemporary reviews; and one might have expected that its rather prominent vein of polytonality would have rendered it equally 'inappropriate to the occasion'. References Sources Paul Rapoport, Havergal Brian and his Symphony "The Gothic", Masters Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (University Microfilms International, 1972) Malcolm MacDonald, 'Czesław Marek and his Sinfonia''' in Chris Walton and Antonio Baldassare (eds.), Musik im Exil: Die Schweiz und das Ausland 1918-45'' (Berne: Peter Lang, 2005) . Havergal Brian's letters to Ernest Newman, edited by David Jenkins, Newsletter 175 (September–October 2004). External links The winning entry The Atterberg Sixth review Classics By Request/Classics of the Phonograph, February 13th 2010, Public Radio Program covering the 1928 competition and featuring excerpts of the original Columbia Recording Music competitions Austrian music awards American music awards International Columbia Graphophone Competition, 1928 Franz Schubert Columbia Records